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South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana

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  • Michael Nassen Smith
  • Carilee Osborne
  • Zunaid Moola
  • Ben Turok

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We examine the extent to which two of Africa's leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on industrialization and development in each country. South Africa's gold mining investments in Ghana and Tanzania are used to illustrate policy impact and the state-capital relations that shape policy formulation and implementation.

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  • Michael Nassen Smith & Carilee Osborne & Zunaid Moola & Ben Turok, 2019. "South African gold mining and local procurement in Tanzania and Ghana," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-80, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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